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OJ says he already spent book advance
Nov 23, 2006, 8:08 GMT
Los Angeles - Former football star and actor OJ Simpson said Wednesday that he had already spent the advance he received for his controversial book about the murder of his ex-wife and their friend, despite the project being dropped.
'Of course I got paid,' Simpson told a Miami radio station. 'I spend the money on my bills. It's gone.' Following a public outcry from advertisers, booksellers and relatives of the victims, media conglomerate News Corp on Monday decided against distributing Simpson's book, If I Did It, and airing an accompanying two-part television interview.
Though Simpson, 59, did not reveal how much he was paid, media reports estimate it to be more than 3 million dollars.
In the radio interview Simpson said 'I have nothing to confess,' maintaining his innocence in the 1994 murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
He was acquitted in 1995 of the murder charges, however, was found liable for the deaths in a 1997 civil court decision which awarded the victims' families 33.5 million dollars in damages, though very little has been collected. . Simpson claimed in the interview that neither the book nor the title were his idea.
'That was their title. That's what they came up with. I didn't pitch anything. I don't make book deals,' Simpson said.
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